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Friday, October 17, 2008

Holy crap, this is fun. Try your luck eyeballing distances and angles and see how well you do. If you're feeling gusty, post your score in the comments. The first time I tried it, I got a 6.0, and the second time (just now) I scored a 4.87. Evidently, I cannot make a parallelogram to save my life, but otherwise I'm ptrry good at eyeballing the center of a cirlcle or an angle. I wager Wilderness Gina will do well on this.

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Just took a crack at it. Came up with 4.75. My best event is bisecting the angle (I'm good at cutting pies!); my worst was finding the center of the triangle. Maybe that's because what I recall being taught was the center is actually what's called the "centroid." Oh.

I did worst on my best events on the 3rd round-- maybe my hand and brain was telling me I need to go back downstairs and strip more woodwork!

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I'm a (finally) licensed architect out here in the wild, wild West who kicks butts and punches lists. I focus on designing hospitals, which--between the program and the clients--is a real challenge. I like what I do for a living, and have the site observation photos to prove it. My job is part designer, part technician, part software guru, part counselor, part therapist, part spiritual guide, and part repo man. So don't toy with me, or I'll refuse to sign your Pay Application.

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